I've wrestled with this for a little while now so I'm hoping someone can shed some light.

 

I use Thunar to access the shares on my unRaid server. If I open an image file from a share that was connected via Thunar with smb://server/share, the share is slow. If I open the same share using a mount point where the share was defined in /etc/fstab, it's quick.

The entry is fstab uses SMBv1. Not sure what the gvfs share from Thunar uses.

For a single large file, the transfer rate is about 99MiB/sec using the fstab share versus about 92MiB/sec using the smb:// share both in Thunar. Plus, things like picture thumbnails seem to populate much faster with the fstab share.

 

Any ideas why this is? Do you see the same issue?

I'm trying out NFS shares and monitoring for "stale file handles" which is what I was getting with SMBv3 shares (but not with SMBv1).

I can't seem to get permissions to work like SMB and they are not as straightforward. Something about setting up a "rule" and a "nobody" user and group.

Not sure this will work, but still researching.

Oh well so much for that idea.

While the speed was great, it was wonky. If I hit the delete key in Thunar, it wouldn't let me delete a directory on the share that was newly created. But if I right mouse click and chose delete, it would work.

Also, the owner of the files written to the share was "99" instead of my username.

Darn. It was looking good there for a minute.

 

Anyone out there using NFS with Linux desktop client (I'm using MX Linux)?

I think I have a few more things worked out but I think I'm going to wait for a tutorial from SpaceInvader.

He had created tutorials for sharing on Windows and Mac, and part 3 is supposed to be NFS for Linux but he never got around to doing it.

I think I have things working but I'm not sure of the options I need to set in the "rule". Also, while the owner is set properly for newly created files, the group gets set to "1000". I think I know why but I'd rather wait for an expert to demo how he has his system setup.